Monday, January 14, 2008

Here at last!!!

I am - at long last - officially in South Africa.

My first impression of Cape Town is something like this:
1. Imagine the most beautiful mountain scenery you have ever imagined.
2. Multiply it by 100.
3. Now, add the most beautiful, turquoise green ocean right below the mountains.
4. Imagine utterly perfect weather, and then add a lot of wind.
5. Add more wind.
6. Sprinkle in people of every color, with fabulous accents.
7. Imagine the most charming colonial city you have ever seen, and then surround it by squatter settlements.
8. Give it a good dash of bad techno music and great jazz.
9. And there you have my first impression of Cape Town.

1 comment:

Kim Fletcher said...

....in the meantime, back at home in Idaho, its was 19 degrees today! Sigh.......
Miss you and love you,
Mom